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Butte, Montana’s economy gets a high tech boost

Butte’s economy is getting a high tech boost and local development officials say a resurging economy is helping.

Every time scientists and engineers light off a rocket in Butte’s rocket test facility, it fires up the local economy to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars.

"Every time they come in, they bring in a team of 10 or 12 technicians, engineers, scientists, with them which stay in our hotels and eat in our restaurants and buy supplies," Executive Director of the Butte Local Development Corporation Jim Smitham said.

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(Many thanks to the Montana Chamber of Commerce for passing this story along. Russ)

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